Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-22
DON'T.
Unless You usve al me Money You
Want, snd .hat Fortune, S5ay
Away from California.
Something About a Wind which Makes
Man Wish BE Could Die
or Get Away.

or Get Away.
PARIS, TEX, october q, lSS'.
! To the Editor of the Gazette.
DEAR SlR-With your request to write
"what know about California" [ cheer
fully comply, the more especially because
| in doing so may hope to deter some of
our WE'LL TODD farmers and others from
| taking step which they would, very
probably, have occasion to regret in after
years. Having lived six years in Cali
fornia, three in the northern and three in
the southern part Of the state, 1 enjoyed,
to sey the least, good opportunity for
| forming correct estimate, both as TO the
! climate and the varied productions Of the
state.
That there Gre excellent small tracts OF
! land in the northern division of the state
| in Napa and in the Sacramento valleys,
aud in other smaller valleys no one &C
quainted with this fact will venture to
deny. Let it not be supposed. however,
that any very considerable portion OF the
! Sacramento valley can be ranked as val
liable lands. Much of it Is alkali, and
much of the remainder is very poor adobe
land. But it is idle to think of purchas-
ing the rich lands in any desirable local
| ity in this portion OF the
state except at such figures
as would render the trade
very Improbable TO the purchaser.
Besides, it is worth while to know that
even the fertile spots have lost much OF
their wheat producing properties IN the
past twenty yesrs; the average yield per
acre beng much less than formerly Aud
yet this, IN my judgment, is far the best
part of California. Wheat, shall state,
is the only profitable crop raised by large
| planters.
Going south, you strike the San
Joaquin valley, beautiful tract OF land
about $50 miles in length by from
thirty TO sixty in breadth. Ia some parts
of this valley, where there is plenty OF
water for irrigsting purposes, there are
prosperous farmers; but the valley, taken
as q whole, could not better describe, in
a business sense, than 70 say that 1t is the
great financial golgotha of California
Very many people from "the old states
have bought land in this fatal valley and
have made the first payment on 1t; but
the number is small that have made the
after payments. While resident in
California, don't think that this valley
averaged more than two crops in five,
and no farmer can pay for land and make
q decent living on 40 per cent. Of his
earnings.
If only capitalists and spectators
were induced to purchase these decep-
tive acres, it would not make so much
difference; but, that honest farmers, de-
pendent upon their labor for the support
| g. 1AN Hn o1n1 E,oAr
purchasing lands that the vendors
know will yield them no support, is little
better than robbery. 1t would be liner
esting to know to how many different
purchasers, each paying certain amour,
down, this ill-fated land has been sold
A much more effective matter it would be
80 trace the history of most Of the fami-
lies that, reduced to utter poverty, wers
forced to hunt some little place out in the
foothills or mountains where they might
earn scsntV subsisten e.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
lived nearly three years in this county
which, on many accounts, regard as the
7est of the counties in this part of the
state. Here the climate for ten months
in the year will average as good as the
best day in Texas. Count from twenty
to thirty days for wind and rain-storms
the most delightful because the most
useful days of the year. Then set apart
from twenty to thirty days Of "deserl
wind'-certainly the most unpleasant
disagreeable and destructive winds that
sweep over any portion of North Amer
lea. During these days it is impossible
to enjoy anything like physical pleasure
Man and beast and the vegetable kingdom
alike utter their spontaneous protes,
against such wind. have known these
winds to continue six days st q time, with
the thermometer ranging from 100 to
1120-absolutely burning up the growing
corn and cooking the ripeniDg wheat. On
the second day OF this terrible wind,
oneHesels that he has lived little too
Il long; from the third to the last day Git il
I be six days wind the feeling is ABOUT
this: "Well, If live through this spell
of weather will try to provide so as
never to endure another So when you
come to make the general average she
climate does not rank SO high IS In some
other places. At least, so think.
Nesr the coast persons with consump-
ton or with pulmonary tendencies car
cot safely reside. The winds and fogf
are too cold and piercing Such persons
would be. much better suited in Sar
Bernardino county, locality more
remote from the ocean, and better pro
tected against the coast winds and fogs
but here the heat at times is mort op.
pressive. One thing wish to record II
favor of every portion of the state and
that lie, that there one never feels any
such thing as lassitude.
What about moving to California?
Well, if you have plenty of money and
don't care to make any more think you
would enjoy living there. II you have
nothing to do but to look after your owl
comfort and pleasure am eure you coult
spend much of your time there. You viii
there find some few very wealthy people
and il you could succeed in forming 81
alliance with some of these on the basis
of pleasure seeking I do not SEE
Lwhy you might not erjoy as mucf
Elm Californis, and especially in
dSouthern California, as in any
4 state in the Union. But II you are q pool
Imam and wish TO make money by purch
: kasina 2E6Fand improving q home, / fee
sure tfiat you had better go to any othel
state or territory in our government i
you have few thousand dollars and wish
20 rvifh confident